For the sons and daughters of Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, and La Ceiba scattered from Houston to New Orleans, one dial reaches home: mamá's landline, a brother's Tigo phone, the pulperÃa on the corner.
Rates updated September 15, 2026
To reach a Honduras number from the United States, dial these three parts in order.
011 504 9123 4567
From any mobile, anywhere in the world, you can dial +504 9123 4567 instead. Press and hold 0 to type the +, and the phone picks the right access code for wherever you are.
Honduras numbers carry no leading trunk digit, so there is nothing to strip. 9123-4567 is dialed exactly as written, with +504 in front. Removing a digit here is what makes the call fail.
A typical Honduras mobile number is 8 digits after +504. If a call does not connect, count the digits first.
Only the first part changes. Your access code replaces the 011, then 504 and the number stay exactly the same.
A ~ means wait for the second dial tone before dialing the rest. It is not a digit you press.
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The overwhelming majority of calls into Honduras come from the United States, and this is not a small trickle: nearly 1.15 million Honduran immigrants lived in the US by 2021, with more recent estimates approaching two million - Migration Policy Institute. The money follows the same wire as the calls: remittances hit roughly $9.7 billion in 2024, equal to about 25.7% of GDP - World Bank. Nearly every transfer is bracketed by a phone call to confirm the recipient, the amount, and the pickup point. The geography of who calls is concrete. Harris County, Texas (Houston) holds the single largest Honduran community, with Miami-Dade, Florida and Jefferson Parish, Louisiana (greater New Orleans) close behind - Migration Policy Institute. New Orleans is the historic anchor: Hondurans came north through it a century ago as workers in the banana trade, which is why the city was long called one of the largest Honduran communities outside Honduras - Honduran Americans, Wikipedia.
The other heavy origin points are New York City, Los Angeles, and the Washington, D.C. area - Honduran Americans, Wikipedia. Calls from these hubs cluster around real events: a Tigo or Claro mobile in San Pedro Sula lighting up on payday, a in a Tegucigalpa colonia ringing on a Sunday, a call to to plan a visit. Because so many Hondurans in the US are on or are undocumented and cannot easily travel back, the phone is often the only steady link to a parent or child, which makes clear, reliable calling into Honduras a daily need rather than an occasional courtesy - .
Dial your international access code: 011 from the US and Canada, or + from any mobile.
Dial Honduras's country code: 504.
Dial the full 8-digit national number exactly as given. There is no area code to add and no trunk 0 to drop.
Example: to reach the mobile +504 9123 4567 from the US, dial 011 504 9123 4567.
Honduras uses a clean 8-digit national number with no trunk prefix, so unlike Mexico or the UK there is no leading 0 to remove - Telephone numbers in Honduras, Wikipedia. The first digit tells you the line type: 2 is a landline, and 3, 7, 8, or 9 is a mobile - Telephone numbers in Honduras, Wikipedia. If a number is only 7 digits, it predates the 2007 (mobile) and 2010 (fixed) eight-digit reforms; for an old landline, prepend a 2 to fix it. Short codes like 911 work only inside Honduras and cannot be reached from abroad.
The single biggest thing that trips up callers is mobile number portability, which CONATEL activated on 30 April 2014 - Conatel. Since then, the leading digit of a mobile no longer reliably tells you the carrier. The original allocations were 9 = Celtel (now Tigo), 8 = Digicel, 7 = Hondutel, and 3 = Sercom (Claro) - Telephone numbers in Honduras, Wikipedia, but people have been carrying their numbers between networks for over a decade, so a 9 number today may sit on Claro and an 8 number on Tigo. Treat the prefix as history, not as the current network. It matters less than it used to, because the market consolidated hard: Digicel Honduras was acquired by Claro (América Móvil) around 2011, and today just two operators, Tigo (about 60%) and Claro (about 39%), hold essentially the whole mobile market - Mordor Intelligence.
The second challenge is reaching landlines at all. Fixed-line penetration in Honduras is low and falling; the vast majority of the country lives on mobile, and many households, especially outside Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, simply have no 2-prefixed landline. If the only number you have for a relative is an old landline, it may be disconnected. When you can, get the mobile. A third, very Honduran wrinkle is the : since December 2022 the government has run a rolling across scores of municipalities specifically to fight phone-based , in which victims are called and threatened - . As a result Hondurans are wary of unknown callers, and your relatives may not pick up a number they do not recognize, so it helps to text or message ahead that you are about to call. On the flip side, if you are in the US and receive an unexpected call from someone you do not know, be skeptical: unsolicited calls carrying that code are a known vector for advertising and scam attempts.
A Honduran number is refreshingly simple once you know the shape. The country code is +504, and every national number is exactly eight digits with no area code to dial separately and no trunk 0 - Telephone numbers in Honduras, Wikipedia. Honduras runs an open numbering plan, which means Hondurans dial the full eight digits for every call, local or long-distance, and there is no shorter local form. So the whole number you need is just those eight digits after +504.
The very first digit does the classifying. A leading 2 means a fixed line (landline); a leading 3, 7, 8, or 9 means a mobile - Telephone numbers in Honduras, Wikipedia. That is the entire rule. There is no separate mobile access code, no special long-distance prefix, and no variable length to worry about, which makes Honduras one of the cleaner Latin American plans to dial. If someone hands you a number that is not eight digits, something is wrong: it is either an old seven-digit number from before the reforms, a short code like 911 that only works inside the country, or a typo.
When Hondurans write numbers informally they often group them as 9999-9999 or 2222-2222, four and four. In international form the same number is +504 9999 9999. Both point at the same eight digits; the grouping is cosmetic.
Honduras did not always use eight digits, and the change happened in two separate steps that are easy to confuse. Mobiles went first: in February 2007, cell numbers grew from seven to eight digits - Telephone numbers in Honduras, Wikipedia. Landlines followed later. In 2010, fixed numbers were expanded from seven to eight digits by prepending the digit 2 to every existing landline, with a permissive transition period during which both old and new forms worked, ending on 11 February 2011 - Telephone numbers in Honduras, Wikipedia.
This history is why you may still find old seven-digit Honduran numbers in a relative's address book, on a business card, or in a decade-old email. To fix a stale landline, add a 2 at the front: an old Tegucigalpa number like 237-XXXX becomes 2237-XXXX. An old mobile from before 2007 needs the historical leading digit its carrier used, which is harder to reconstruct, so for mobiles it is almost always easier to just ask for the current number.
Both reforms were driven by the regulator, the Comisión Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (CONATEL), which governs numbering in Honduras - Conatel. If a number you have refuses to connect and it is only seven digits long, the reform is almost certainly the reason, and prepending the missing digit is the fix.
For landlines, the block right after the leading 2 carries the geography. Tegucigalpa, the capital in the central highlands, sits mostly in the 22xx range - Telephone numbers in Honduras, Wikipedia. San Pedro Sula, the industrial and maquila hub of the north and the busiest business-calling city, falls largely in the 25xx range - Telephone numbers in Honduras, Wikipedia. The north coast cluster, which includes La Ceiba, Tela, Trujillo and the tourist-heavy Bay Islands (Roatán, Guanaja, French Harbour, Coxen Hole), uses 24xx prefixes - Telephone numbers in Honduras, Wikipedia. The western region, taking in Santa Bárbara, El Progreso, Copán, Nueva Ocotepeque and Santa Cruz, sits in the 26xx band - Telephone numbers in Honduras, Wikipedia.
The practical value of this is confirmation, not dialing: you never dial a city prefix separately, but seeing a 25xx landline tells you the office is in San Pedro Sula, and a 24xx landline tells you the hotel is on the coast or in the islands. It is genuinely useful when you are calling a business (a bank branch, a hotel in Roatán, a clinic) and want to sanity-check that the number belongs to the city you expect.
For businesses, the reliable target is almost always a landline or a published Tigo/Claro mobile. Hotels in Roatán and La Ceiba, banks in San Pedro Sula, and clinics in Tegucigalpa typically list a 2-prefixed fixed line, and those are the numbers that behave well from abroad. Where a Honduran business only publishes a WhatsApp number, that number is still a normal +504 eight-digit mobile, so you can place a regular voice call to it even if the business primarily uses it for messaging.
Reaching elders is its own art in Honduras. Older parents in smaller towns may only have a mobile on a prepaid plan, and prepaid handsets sometimes go dormant when the balance runs out, so a number that rang last month may go straight to a recording this month. The workaround relatives use is to keep two contact routes: the parent's own mobile and a neighbor's or grandchild's mobile who lives nearby, since a younger family member is more likely to have a topped-up phone and can walk it over.
Because of the ongoing extortion climate and the resulting state of exception across many municipalities - OSAC Honduras Security Report, an unfamiliar incoming +504 or foreign number often goes unanswered on purpose. If your call goes to voicemail, it is frequently caution, not absence. Sending a quick WhatsApp or SMS first ("llamo en cinco minutos, soy yo") dramatically raises the odds your relative picks up.
Honduras keeps UTC-6 year-round and never shifts for daylight saving - Time in Honduras, Wikipedia. This creates a small seasonal quirk US callers should internalize. In US winter, Honduras is on the same clock as US Central Time and one hour behind Eastern. In US summer, because the US springs forward but Honduras does not, Honduras falls one hour behind Central and two behind Eastern. So the same 8pm call from Houston lands at a slightly different local hour in July than in January.
For reaching a person (this is about who is home, not about price, since there is no cheaper hour to call), the sweet spots are predictable. Honduran family life is anchored on Sunday, the day for the big meal and unhurried calls, so a Sunday early afternoon call almost always finds people together. On weekdays, aim for after 7pm Honduras time, once the workday and the commute are done. Avoid very early mornings: many Hondurans start work early, and a 6am ring reads as an emergency.
Because Honduras and the US share so much of the day, you rarely face the brutal overnight math of calling Asia. From the East Coast, essentially any reasonable evening hour for you is still evening in Honduras. That overlap is a big reason the US-Honduras phone corridor is so heavily used: the two countries are, most of the year, awake at the same time.
Exactly eight digits after the country code, for both landlines and mobiles - Telephone numbers in Honduras, Wikipedia. In full international form that is +504 followed by the eight digits, for example +504 9123 4567. There is no separate area code to dial and no trunk 0.
Look at the first digit. A 2 means a landline; a 3, 7, 8, or 9 means a mobile - Telephone numbers in Honduras, Wikipedia. Both are eight digits long, so the leading digit is the only tell you need. Most people you know personally will be on a mobile beginning with 9 or 8.
It predates the eight-digit reforms. Mobiles moved from 7 to 8 digits in February 2007, and landlines moved from 7 to 8 digits in 2010 by adding a 2 at the front - Telephone numbers in Honduras, Wikipedia. For an old landline, prepend a 2 (so 237-XXXX becomes 2237-XXXX). For an old mobile, it is easiest to just ask for the current number.
Not reliably. Since number portability launched on 30 April 2014, Hondurans carry their numbers between networks - Conatel. The original allocations (9 = Tigo/Celtel, 8 = Digicel, 7 = Hondutel, 3 = Claro/Sercom) are now just history. In practice the market is essentially Tigo and Claro today anyway - Mordor Intelligence, and with InternationalCall.co you pay the same flat per-minute rate to any Honduran mobile regardless of network.
Honduras stays on UTC-6 all year with no daylight saving - Time in Honduras, Wikipedia, so it matches US Central in winter and runs an hour behind Central in summer. The best windows to reach a person are Sunday early afternoon and weekday evenings after 7pm Honduras time. This is purely about when family is home. There is no off-peak pricing, so no hour is cheaper than another.
Phone-based extortion is a real problem, and Honduras has run a rolling state of exception across many municipalities since December 2022 to fight it - OSAC Honduras Security Report. Many Hondurans simply do not pick up numbers they do not recognize. Sending a quick WhatsApp or SMS first to say you are about to call makes a big difference.
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Start callingDialing out of Honduras, the international access code is 00, not the 011 that Americans are used to. So to reach a US number from inside Honduras you dial 00 + 1 + area code + number, and to reach a Spanish or Mexican number you dial 00 + 34 or 00 + 52 and the rest - Telephone numbers in Honduras, Wikipedia. The dominant outbound destination is, unsurprisingly, the United States, since that is where the family income and much of the extended family lives; calls to the US to coordinate remittance pickups, medical appointments, and immigration paperwork are routine. Within Central America there is steady traffic to Guatemala (+502), El Salvador (+503), and Nicaragua (+505), reflecting cross-border trade, family ties, and the maquila supply chains around San Pedro Sula. One quirk worth knowing: because Honduras uses an open numbering plan with no trunk prefix, Hondurans dial all eight digits for every domestic call, so prefixing 00 for an international call feels natural, while the habit of dropping a leading 0 (common in Europe or Mexico) simply does not exist here.
One more practical note: emergency and hotline numbers do not follow the eight-digit pattern. The national emergency line is the short code 911, which is free from any landline or cell phone - OSAC Honduras Security Report. Bank and utility customer-service lines are often short codes or special numbers that are only reachable from inside Honduras, so an elderly parent may not be able to give you a number you can dial from abroad. In those cases, calling the person directly and having them handle the local call is usually the way through.
Mobiles carry no geography at all. A 9 or 8 mobile in Honduras could belong to someone in Tegucigalpa, La Ceiba, or a village in Olancho; the number travels with the person. So do not try to infer where a relative is from their cell number, and do not worry that a mobile costs more to reach based on region: it does not, because there are no regions on a mobile.